With the help of a semi-bilingual couple seated nearby, we ordered the local specialty called kusaya, salted, dried and fermented horse mackerel, which, we learned, has been prepared on Niijima in the same way for more than 300 years.
Robert is bilingual and for the last couple of months I have been telling him off in French.
A year and a half ago, they changed again - to bilingual meetings - but not before a couple of radio shock jocks had told the city commissioner, "If your people cannot understand my language, they should get on their burros and go back to Mexico.
Barragán and Ruanova were both born and raised in the city and describe themselves as a couple of "border rats": fully bilingual, as comfortable with the minutiae of Mexican culture as they are with that of the U.S.
The couple were wed in a 90-minute bilingual ceremony at St . John Vianney a small, mostly Hispanic Catholic church where the Rev. Drew Gawrych, its associate pastor, officiated.
Many couples and families in the United States are bilingual today, and yes, many are immigrants.
However, only a couple of villages with large Polish minorities have bilingual signs yet (Vendryně/Wędrynia for instance).
The couple's sons, now 16 and 20, attended a private bilingual school in Cambridge, where they spoke French along with English, Mr. Podlasly said.
Both bilingual graduate students, having recently moved to the Atlanta area from Abilene, the couple are firmly focused on learning to create a sustainable environment in their fields -- Leah in fashion design at Savannah College of Art and Design, and Eric in agribusiness at the University of Georgia in nearby Athens, GA.
Tania Bradkin, ASW, MSW, specializes in working with children and adolescents, seniors, couples and families, and is dedicated to serving our Spanish speaking community as a bilingual psychotherapist.
A couple of months ago, Ralph Arellano, the director at the Hispanic Technology and Community Center, had the idea of putting the bilingual EPA pamphlets inside boxes of food distributed at a pantry he works with.
